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Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83
Tim Hodgdon
Year: 2009, c2007.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
© Columbia University Press
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbrevations
IntroductionWith Flowers in Their Hair?: Remembering Countercultural Masculinity
[Intro]
Braves, White Knights, and Outlaws at the Human Be-In
Setting Hip Manhood in Historical Context
Hippies and the Postwar “Crisis of Masculinity”
The Counterculture and the American Tradition of Cultural Radicalism
The Counterculture and Twentieth-Century American Radicalism
[Intro]
The Counterculture, the 1960s, and the New Deal Order
Countercultural Heterogeneity and Hip Masculinity
Connell's Critical-Realist Theory of Gender
Part 1“Style, Guile, Balls, Imagination, and Autonomy”: The Anarchist Masculinity of the Diggers and Free Families
Chapter 1Origins: The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and Hip Identity
[Intro]
The Coalescence of the Diggers
Getting Together in the Haight-Ashbury
[Intro]
The Counterculture and Social Change
Life-Acting: Agenda and Forms
“Food as Medium”
“Property of the Possessed”: The Free Stores
Life-Acts in the Streets
The Summer of Love
The Free Diaspora: The Free City Collective and the Free Families
Chapter 2Personal Heaviness: Defining and Defending Countercultural Masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury
[Intro]
The Diggers and the Postwar “Crisis of Masculinity”
Defying Their Fathers: Digger Opposition to Straight Manhood
The Repudiation of Whiteness
“White Negro” Anarchists
“So Much to Manhood”: The Tribal Mystique
Digger Virility versus Flower-Child Pacifism
[Intro]
The Manhood Act
The Manhood Act as Digger Weapon
The Limits of Rivalry
Chapter 3Brothers and Rivals, Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers: Gender Relations among the Digger Heavies
[Intro]
Brothers and Rivals
Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers
[Intro]
A Hip-Anarchist Model of Gender
The “Free” Sexual Division of Labor
“She's Not Property”: The Digger “Sexual Revolution”
Outlaw Manhood and Male Supremacy
Freedom and Limits
Part 2“We Be Yogis and Yoginis Together in Our Families”: Tantric Masculinity on The Farm
Chapter 4“I Used to Believe in Hemingway”: The Self-Making of a Haight-Ashbury Spiritual Teacher
[Intro]
Spiritual Novitiate
[Intro]
Encountering Psychedelics
Manhood among the Magicians
Headman of a Hashburian “Tribe”
“Our Tribe Don't Do That”
Preaching to the Haight-Ashbury: The Monday Night Class
[Intro]
The Gendered Foundations of Gaskin's Teaching
The Holy Man and His Fellow Pilgrims
The Caravan: From “Village” to Community
“Getting into It with the Dirt”: In Search of a Farm
Chapter 5“We Here Work as Hard as We Can”: The Farm's Sexual Division of Labor
[Intro]
Relations with the Local Community
Population and Infrastructure
Finances and Governance
The Sexual Division of Labor
[Intro]
Manhood and Labor
The Reproductive Labor of Men and Boys
Women's Labor
Motherhood and Administration
Midwifery: High-Status Labor
Pronatalism: “Unassailable and Sacrosanct”
Chapter 6“Like a Good Horse Follows a Rider”: Shaping Tantric Manhood in Marriage, Sexuality, and Childbirth
[Intro]
“There Was Great Incentive to Get Married”
Sexuality and Contraception
The Authority of Midwives
[Intro]
Discipline of Husbands
Disciplining Women
The Farm and Radical Feminism
The Intimidated Ladies' Meeting
The Next-Best Time Is Today
The Changeover
Inventing a New Plot
Notes
Preface
IntroductionWith Flowers in Their Hair?: Remembering Countercultural Masculinity
Chapter 1Origins: The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and Hip Identity
Chapter 2Personal Heaviness: Defining and Defending Countercultural Masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury
Chapter 3Brothers and Rivals, Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers: Gender Relations among the Digger Heavies
Chapter 4“I Used to Believe in Hemingway”: The Self-Making of a Haight-Ashbury Spiritual Teacher
Chapter 5“We Here Work as Hard as We Can”: The Farm's Sexual Division of Labor
Chapter 6“Like a Good Horse Follows a Rider”: Shaping Tantric Manhood in Marriage, Sexuality, and Childbirth
Bibliography
Archival Collections and Other Unpublished Primary Sources
Published Works, Dissertations, and Theses
Index
About the Author
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New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, c2007.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99020
Subject Headings: • Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History
• Masculinity -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
• Counterculture -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
• Counterculture -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century
• Hippies -- United States -- Interviews
• Communal living -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century
• Farms -- Tennessee -- History -- 20th century
• Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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